ITC Infotech to Organize Hackathon

Bangalore based ITC Infotech will be hosting a two day hackathon around Internet of Things. This event will be held on 4, 5 July. This will be an excellent opportunity for the students, professional, start-up companies to learn the advanced aspects. A prototype building contest will be held along with the hackathon. Winners and runners will be awarded with a cash price of two lakh and one lakh respectively.

“We will provide intellectual capital for mentoring budding innovators and provide tools to develop ideas to prototypes using disruptive technology,” said Sushma Rajagopalan, Chief Executive of ITC Infotech.

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max is Available Now at a Cheaper Price

Samsung Galaxy Grand Max smart phone is now available at a cheaper price with a reduction of almost 20 % of its original cost. This model was launched in February with a price of Rs. 15,990. Now, it is available from Rs. 12,990 onwards. Snapdeal is the exclusive seller of this version in India. It had provided an additional discount of Rs, 1,000 on 19 June. Apart from the above discounts, special offers of almost 11,000 Rs. worth will be provided by Snapdeal. Kotak Mahindra users will get an additional discount of 10 %.

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Max measures 7.9mm in thickness and weighs 162 gram. It contains  13 Mega Pixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5MP front camera.

Wikileaks Company Shuts Down

Wikileaks, is an organization that publishes confidential information of various agencies and countries across the globe. This organization will run on the donations and support from the various people and groups worldwide. But, now Wikileads is in financial crisis as the companies like Visa, Paypal, Master Card and Western Union has stopped Wikileaks from accepting the donations. Julian Assange, the founder of this organization had reported that Wikileaks is suffering with severe financial crisis, which is very difficult for them to overcome. This might lead to shutting down the company.

Wikileaks ad faced similar financial crisis in 2010, where it had shut its operations temporarily., but however they have recovered later. But, now it is very difficult for them to fight for its survival. Very soon, Wikileaks may permanently shut down its operations.

A New Game Based on Maabartha Launched Rently

A new game was launched rently which is based on the story of the famous Indian mythological epic Mahabaratha. An Indian-Singapore based start-up company has designed this game. This game design was initiated by Varun Devanathan, a 29-year-old software consultant. Initially, the game has been desined based on the two important characters of Mahabharatha ‘Arjuna’ and ‘Karna’. Now they are working to include more number of characters in the game.

Varun had reported that Mahabaratha story will be re-produced as a TV serial every four years once. Indian do love to watch this programmes. So, we have designed the story in the form of a game. The game was being designed by considering 14 to 30 years age group. New Delhi-based artist Anirudh Sainath and Singaporean artist Benjamin Tan, are working on designing the game. It was planned to be online by the end of 2016.

Video Autoplay Option in Twitter

Micro blogging site Twitter has come up with a new feature to autoplay the videos. This will enable to load and play the videos automatically. This is already an existing feature in facebook. But this may not be an excitement for ad-unfriendly users. The main drawback for this option is that it will consume users’ data plans and battery life. However, there is an option to disable or limit the autoplay feature. Hope this will be an excitement for Twitter lovers.

New Feature on Facebook

Prominent social networking site Facebook has come up with an interesting feature. Facebook will suggest the topic for updating your status hereafter. It want the users to update their status regularly. If the user doesn’t have any idea about the topic for posting the status, then Facebook will automatically suggest few posts, where the recommendations may vary, depending on the user’s activity in the networking site.

A new option ‘Suggested Topics’ can be seen in the status column in the updated version of Facebook. These topics may include subjects like #LovingDay, #NationalPeanutButterCookieDay and #WorldBikeNakedDay etc. This feature will make it more user friendly.

New App Steals Information in Facebook

Everyone have to be very careful while downloading applications in to our personal smart phones. There are few apps which may steal our personal details from our mobile phone. One of such kind is the Facebook ‘Unfriend’ app. This is not an official app of FB. This application can be downloaded free of cost. It gives you a notification when some one unfriend u from the facebook account, but asks for ur username and password.

Experts are warning the users to be aware of such apps. It is better to delete the application and change the passwords.

Jaden Smith Will be Seen in Hip Hop Series

“The Get Down” was the hip hop show that is being directed by Baz Luhrmann. The famous karate star Jaden Smith will play a lead role in the upcoming series of ‘The Get Down’. Academy-winner Catherine Martin will be working as the costume and production designer.

Beside Jaden Smith, the main crew of the show  includes Jimmy Smits, Herizen Guardiola, Justice Smith, Shameik Moore, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr, Yahya Abdul-Mateen and Mamoudou Athie.

Smartphones Can Bend Into Different Shapes

This will be the interesting news of the day. Soon we can see the mobile pone in the market which has to speciality to bend into different shapes and forms.

A research was being done in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol in this regard. This research is based on the ‘Shape resolution’ where different shape changing materials will be used for the preparation of mobile phones. This entire research was being lead by Dr. Anne Roudaut and Professor Sriram Subramanian. They reported that the interesting phase of their research is to develop mobile phones which the features to change shape on demand. This feature of changing the shape will be very user friendly and meet the convenience of the users. Hope such mobiles will be seen soon in the market.

iPhone will Track Sex Life Here After

Apple is gearing up to launch its new operating system IOS 9 at the end of this year. This new OS will have the feature to track the sexual activity of its users. This assessment will be done by an application ‘Apple’s Healthkit tool’  which will have a track on health and fitness. This app will figure out the fitness details like heart beat, cholesterol, Callories, sugar levels etc. Even women can track their basal body temperature and cervical mucus quality which are linked to fertility cycles and ovulation.

This new feature of Apple will be an important medium to all it users to have a track on their health and fitness regularly.